Bozell Live Facebook Chat About Dem Debate: Noon Eastern Oct. 14
MRC President Brent Bozell will be taking your questions during a LIVE Facebook chat at 12 PM ET Wednesday, October 14, 2015. He will be discussing tonight's presidential debate, the ongoing role of the media during the election, current events, and anything else you'd like to talk about.
Please stop by his Facebook page at 12 p.m. Eastern Wednesday to join the discussion!
Celebs, Media Love ‘Black Lives Matter’ Question During the #DemDebate
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During the Democratic debate Tuesday night, candidates were asked the question, “Do black lives matter or do all lives matter?” This mind-numbing question brought out gushing answers of affirmation, “Well of course black lives matter!” from Sanders, Clinton and O’Malley, who all went on to lament that we “need to do more.” Of course that PC Q&A was received with gusto from the media elite who…
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Video: Anderson Cooper Jokes Dem Debate Attendees Have All Done Pot
Heading out to commercial break shortly before 10:30 p.m. Eastern, CNN Democratic debate moderator Anderson Cooper cracked a joke that implied the debate audience was full of potheads, or at least former ones.
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CNN Goes Liberal on Immigration: Sanders ‘Left’ Latinos ‘at the Altar’
On the subject of illegal immigration, CNN's debate went left with debate panelist Juan Carlos Lopez hitting Bernie Sanders for not being liberal enough. Lopez demanded, “Senator Sanders, in 2013 you voted for immigration reform. But in 2007 when the Democrats controlled Congress and the Bush White House was on board, you voted against it.” He then attacked the senator: “Why should Latino voters…
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Bernie Sanders Attacks Media for Mentioning Hillary’s ‘Damn E-Mails'
Rallying to the aid of fellow 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton during the first debate Tuesday night, Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) angrily lamented the focus on Clinton’s e-mail scandal and berated the media for covering Clinton’s “damn e-mails.”
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CNN’s Dana Bash: Can’t We Just Forgive Hillary on Iraq Vote?
With her first debate question of the night, CNN’s Dana Bash wondered if Hillary Clinton’s vote on the Iraq War could simply be forgiven. Talking to another Democratic candidate, Lincoln Chafee, Bash lectured, “You were the only Republican in the Senate to vote against the Iraq War. You say Secretary Clinton should be disqualified from the presidency because she voted in favor of using force in…
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On Dem Debate Night, Matthews Trashes ‘Pathetic’ ‘Sock Puppet’ Rubio
Tuesday may be the Democratic debate night, but that didn’t stop an angry Chris Matthews from trashing Marco Rubio as a “pathetic” “sock puppet.” Before the CNN debate began, the MSNBC Hardball anchor derided conservative donor Sheldon Adelson as a “sugar daddy” who will likely endorse the Republican.
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ABC, NBC Cheer ‘Relatable’ Hillary; ‘Burden’ for Her to Stay in Front
On Tuesday night ahead of the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News put forth their best efforts to paint a favorable scene for Hillary Clinton by touting her as “relatable” while “need[ing] to show voters a different side” as she shoulders the “burden” of trying “to protect her front-runner status.”
Hillary’s ‘Panderrific’ Telemundo Interview
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In the run-up to the first debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, frontrunner Hillary Clinton sat down with Telemundo anchor María Celeste Arrarás for a tough, hard-hitting…ah, who are we kidding? The whole thing was practically a Hillary campaign commercial.
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Chris Matthews: Bernie Would Keep U.S. Out of 'Goddamn Wars'
After momentarily berating Bernie Sanders flack Tad Devine over the socialist's prickliness about being questioned about his technically being an independent, not a registered Democrat, Hardball host Chris Matthews tonight praised the Vermont senator's dovish tack on foreign policy, hailing how he would keep the U.S. out of "all those goddamn wars!"
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CNN Marvels at Hillary Aide Huma Abedin Checking Out the Stage
Just hours ahead of Tuesday’s 2016 Democratic presidential debate on CNN, the network was already in spin mode for Hillary Clinton down to the most minute detail as senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny marveled during The Situation Room at the sight of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin surveying the stage for Clinton to gather “a sense of what this evening is going to be.”
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Union Boss Trumka Says He's Not a Capitalist, Either
First Sanders, now Trumka—are there any capitalists left on the left? On the most recent Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders made news when Chuck Todd asked him if he was a capitalist. "No," shot back Sanders, "I'm a democratic socialist." Mark Halperin was obviously taken enough by the question as to pose it on today's With All Due Respect to Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO.
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CNN Democrat Debate Open Thread
The official NewsBusters Open Thread for the CNN Democratic debate held on October 13, 2015.
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CNN’s Cooper Lashes Out: Clinton Connection to Me Is ‘Total Bunk’
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday was forced to respond to an accusation that he is too close to the Clintons. As first noted on the Weekly Standard (and highlighted on the Drudge Report), the anchor was listed as a “notable past member” for a 2007 conference he moderated at the Clinton Global Initiative. Cooper assailed, “With all due respect to the Weekly Standard, this is total bunk.”
